The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 11

Then the giants were very sad, and bewailed the loss of their hero; but Makoma comforted them, and gave back to each the gifts he had taken from them.

Who acts: giants, Makoma · What happens: be, bewail, comfort, give back, take · To what, where: loss, friends, gifts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants, Makoma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sad	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giants	det
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bewailed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bewailed	cc
9	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loss	det
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bewailed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hero	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hero	nmod:poss
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loss	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 comforted	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 comforted	cc
17	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 comforted	nsubj
18	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 comforted	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 comforted	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 gave	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 gifts	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 gifts	det
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gifts	det
27	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 gifts	acl:relcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giants			then	sad property	tree rules
2	bewail	past	the giants not said here	the loss of friends's hero				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
3	comfort	past	Makoma	friends = friend				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	give back	past	Makoma not said here		each gifts			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gift=Recipient
5	take	past · perfect	Makoma	each gifts not said here			from friends = friend	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent gift=Theme from they=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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